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 Beyond HCI: The need for accessibility across the CS curriculum


In a more recent move to define a curriculum Teach Access (Teach Access ref) have put together a framework of topics to be able to teach digital and web accessibility. This framework was developed through synthesizing computing education and accessible computing literature, alongside discussions with subject matter experts in both computing education and accessibility (HCI paper ref). They too order the main principles and learning concepts as defining disability and the barriers people face, the legal frameworks and guidelines for design, followed by implementation and evaluation. As this is predominantly framed around the needs of university level courses they also include a final unit on the accessibility profession and continuous learning, as highlighted by others who have similarly explored learning objectives in higher education contexts (refs).

They recognise that it is equally important for teachers to receive training to effectively be able to teach the curriculum (HCI paper ref) 

Kawas paper: Unfortunately, finding scalable ways to encourage these integrations, and scalable ways to train faculty on the pedagogy required to
succeed at teaching them [2, 14, 15], is not straightforward [13, 20].

[2] K. E. Bigelow. 2012. Designing for success: Developing engineers who consider
universal design principles. Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability 25,
3 (2012), 211–225
[14] Cynthia Putnam, Maria Dahman, Emma Rose, Jinghui Cheng, and Glenn Bradford.
2015. Teaching Accessibility, Learning Empathy.. In Proceedings of the 17th
International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility. 333–334.
[15] Cynthia Putnam, Maria Dahman, Emma Rose, Jinghui Cheng, and Glenn Bradford.
2016. Best Practices for Teaching Accessibility in University Classrooms: Cultivating Awareness, Understanding, and Appreciation for Diverse Users https://doi.org/10.1145/2831424

[13] Bohman Paul. [n. d.]. Teaching accessibility and design-for-all in the information
and communication technology curriculum: Three case studies of universities in
the United States, England, and Austria

[20] Annalu Waller. 2009. Vicki L Hanson, and David Sloan.. In Proceedings of the
11th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility.
155–162

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